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Texas Women's Basketball hosts La Salle · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Craig Way, joined by the producer Cameron Parker. We're with
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  Speaker 1: you up till five o'clock. Don't forget Texas women's basketball
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  Speaker 1: tonight at seven. You can hear that on one oh
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  Speaker 1: three point one FM, Austin's eighty station, as Texas takes
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  Speaker 1: on Lasal the Explorers. Did you when you just hear
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  Speaker 1: the name Lassalle and hear LaSalle Explorers, do you grasp
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  Speaker 1: a particular imagery of who they were named for and
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff?
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  Speaker 2: I do not?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, that's good. That's good because you start
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  Speaker 1: with a clean slate. You see. Most people think that
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  Speaker 1: Lassau University was named for the explorer, the French explorer
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  Speaker 1: lasal Uh, and therefore the name being the Explorers. There
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  Speaker 1: was a Baltimore sports writer covering a Lassal football game
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  Speaker 1: when they had football back in the eighteen thirty one
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  Speaker 1: who alluded to Lesalles being named for the French explorer
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  Speaker 1: Lessal not true. The school was named for Saint John
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  Speaker 1: Baptist de la Sal. Saint John Baptist de la Sal.
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  Speaker 1: The irony is they were playing a team in Maryland
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  Speaker 1: called Saint John's, not the Saint John's in New York
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  Speaker 1: but they were playing football on that as the folks
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  Speaker 1: at LASAL likes to say where the two events related.
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  Speaker 1: Will never know for sure, but the LaSalle Explorers are
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  Speaker 1: in Philadelphia. They're not named for the French explorer LASAL.
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  Speaker 1: It is a private, Catholic based institution. But the Long
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  Speaker 1: Orange will take on a LASAL team that is six
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  Speaker 1: and five their wins over Delaware. Writer Lee h, I
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  Speaker 1: mean it's going to be area regional wins Loyola Chicago
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  Speaker 1: and they beat something called chestnut Hill. There was a
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  Speaker 1: team called Chestnut Hill. The only chestnut Hill I'm aware
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  Speaker 1: of is in Massachusetts where Boston College is, so I'm
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  Speaker 1: not sure what that is. Their losses are to Maine, Drexel, Virginia, Temple,
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  Speaker 1: and Penn, so we'll see. Meanwhile, the Longhorns will roll
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  Speaker 1: into the game at ten and one and looking to
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  Speaker 1: get one more nice one before they get to the
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  Speaker 1: final game before the Christmas break, when they play South
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  Speaker 1: Dakota State. Now, they're going to get a good test
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  Speaker 1: from South Dakota State and annual NCAA tournament participant and
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  Speaker 1: Sweet sixteen party crasher and all that sort of stuff
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  Speaker 1: allowed that may not get quite as big a test
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  Speaker 1: tonight from La Sala. They'll get on Sunday, but I
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  Speaker 1: think they'll definitely get one on Sunday. Of course, the
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  Speaker 1: Longhorn men will be in action on Thursday against the
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  Speaker 1: Privateers of New Orleans, who apparently have one of the
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  Speaker 1: logos that Cameron Parker admires more than any other in
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  Speaker 1: collegiate athletics. Is it right?
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  Speaker 2: That's right? And they also have one of them an
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  Speaker 2: assistant coach who I admire more than any other assistant coach,
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  Speaker 2: and that's because it's Jeffon Felix, the former Longhorn legend
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  Speaker 2: and one of the most I think clutch bucket getters
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  Speaker 2: in all of Texas basketball history. I always remember his
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  Speaker 2: game win he shot against North Carolina at the Irwin Center.
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  Speaker 2: I think I was somewhere in North Carolina wearing burn orange,
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  Speaker 2: cheering my foot off with my dad and loved Washington
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  Speaker 2: play basketball for Texas during that time period. Excited to
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  Speaker 2: have him back in Austin. I think Texas fans will
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  Speaker 2: as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a great dude. Javon phelicks had He made
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  Speaker 1: some big shots. Other than that one. I can remember
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  Speaker 1: a huge one he made at Kansas State when they
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  Speaker 1: beat Kansas State and he had a big game against
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  Speaker 1: Kansas State. I remember that, uh, and that was a
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  Speaker 1: game where he was going into it where where I
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  Speaker 1: think he'd had like, for want of a better phrase,
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  Speaker 1: kind of a groin injury. And I asked him how
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  Speaker 1: he felt and said, all right, I said, so everything
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  Speaker 1: is okay with a groin? He said well, and then
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  Speaker 1: he said some blue and off color things about it.
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  Speaker 1: He said, but I'll be ready to go and uh
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  Speaker 1: so and he went out and he played really really well.
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  Speaker 1: I remember that Javan is a great guy, uh from
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  Speaker 1: New Orleans and a chance to go back there.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, we'll look.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it'll be it'll be good uh for Javon Phelips.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully they give him a good amount of that that
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  Speaker 1: he'll be recognized and a Republic address I think, and
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  Speaker 1: then given given some proper due on Thursday night for
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  Speaker 1: that one. So h it'll be good to know that
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  Speaker 1: he's back in town. I won't actually be able to
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  Speaker 1: be there to be that game. Roger will call that
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  Speaker 1: game with Eddie Orn. I'll be in Arlington, as we
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  Speaker 1: talked about earlier, I'm going to be up there for
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  Speaker 1: the calling the UIL State football Championships for television. Six
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  Speaker 1: of those. Obviously, I'll be back for the Texas Clemson
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  Speaker 1: game on Saturday. I'm not doing the two six A
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  Speaker 1: games on Saturday. But speaking of which, coming up in
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  Speaker 1: a few minutes, we're going to visit with Drew Sanders,
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  Speaker 1: the head coach of the Vandergriff Vipers. Vandergriff has and
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  Speaker 1: has had and he's the only coach the program's ever known.
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  Speaker 1: He's been there since I think two thousand and three,
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  Speaker 1: so he's the only coach the program has ever known.
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  Speaker 1: And they've had a tradition for a long time winning,
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  Speaker 1: winning lots of games, winning a lot of district championships.
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  Speaker 1: They've had some undefeated regular seasons, and they've had some
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  Speaker 1: good playoff runs, getting into the quarterfinals, getting into the
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  Speaker 1: semifinals once. They've only been to the state championship one
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  Speaker 1: other time. That was two years ago. They lost to
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  Speaker 1: a Desota team that Trey Wisner had a big game
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  Speaker 1: that afternoon for Desota, and there were several Longhorns who
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  Speaker 1: are involved in that, John Tay Cook, who has now
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  Speaker 1: since left the program entering the portal, but there were
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  Speaker 1: several future Longhorns who were part of that program coming
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  Speaker 1: up that were either seniors or juniors or sophomores and
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  Speaker 1: Quin Travian Wisner and he wasn't going by Quintravian. We
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  Speaker 1: were told by Claude Mathis, the head coach that week
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  Speaker 1: in the conference calls, that he preferred to go by Trey,
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  Speaker 1: so we called him Trey the whole telecast. We've since
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  Speaker 1: learned that Trey wants to honor his mom's wishes and
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  Speaker 1: go by quin Travian at least in first reference, and
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  Speaker 1: so that's what we've we've tried to do here over
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  Speaker 1: the past few weeks. We've done call him Quintravian and
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  Speaker 1: then and then come back with Trey in a second reference,
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  Speaker 1: but then call them Quintravian again. So just so we'll
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  Speaker 1: have that. If you talked to Sart, he's of course
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  Speaker 1: been used to him being Trey, so he has called
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  Speaker 1: him uh Trey. But anyway, Uh Vandergriff lost to Desta
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  Speaker 1: that year two years ago, but they're back now. And
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  Speaker 1: two years ago they were looked as a team that
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  Speaker 1: probably should be there, but could they break through. They did.
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  Speaker 1: This year's team was looked at as one that was good,
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  Speaker 1: but maybe not good enough to get first of all
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  Speaker 1: through Region four, where a good Sybilo Steel team was
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  Speaker 1: well they thumped them. And then certainly to go up
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  Speaker 1: against a Summer Crank team Kelvin Banks alma mater by
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  Speaker 1: the way, and coached by a lifetime Longhorning Kenny Harrison,
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  Speaker 1: a team that got to the State eight finals before
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  Speaker 1: losing to the Soda last year. That a team that
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  Speaker 1: was probably going to take them out. There were a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people. I think the computer had Summer Creek
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  Speaker 1: favored by ten points or projected to win by ten
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people thought Summer Creak it was just
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  Speaker 1: another step along the way, and they jumped to a
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  Speaker 1: fourteen nothingly, then they were up ten points late in
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  Speaker 1: the first half at twenty four to fourteen, and then
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  Speaker 1: Vandergrift flipped the script and turned it around.